CALL FOR PAPERS

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11th Workshop on Scalable Computing (WSC'20)
https://www.fedcsis.org/2020/wsc

Organized within the framework of the Federated Conference on Computer
Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2020), Track 2

Sofia, Bulgaria, 6-9 September, 2020
http://www.fedcsis.org/
https://www.fedcsis.org/2020/css

************************* COVID-19 Information *************************

Taking into account lack of certainty that it will be possible to
organize the conference on-site (in Sofia) in September, we have decided
that there is no other way but to organize the conference 100%
telepresence/video-based. This decision makes us very sad, but we
believe that this is the best one we can make. This decision has
consequences. First, the new conference fee has been reduced to 150 euro
(for each contributed and accepted paper). Second, since we do not have
to deal with local arrangements, we can use the extra time and we have
established the new submission deadline. It is now July 3, 2020 for the
regular papers. We are looking forward to e-meet you.

FedCSIS organizers

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The world of large-scale computing continuously evolves. The most recent
addition to the mix comes from numerous data streams that materialize
from exploding number of cheap sensors installed
“everywhere”, on the one hand, and ability to capture andstudy events
with systematically increasing granularity, on the other. To address the
needs for scaling computational and storage infrastructures, concepts
like: edge, fog and dew computing emerged.

Novel issues in involved in “pushing computing away from the center” did
not replace open questions that existed in the context of grid and cloud
computing. Rather, they added new dimensions of complexity and resulted
in the need of addressing scalability across more and more complex
ecosystems consisting of individual sensors and micro-computers (e.g.
Raspberry PI based systems) as well as supercomputers available within
the Cloud (e.g. Cray computers facilitated within the MS Azure Cloud).

Addressing research questions that arise in individual “parts” as well
as across the ecosystem viewed from a holistic perspective, with
scalability as the main focus is the goal of the Workshop on Scalable
Computing. In this context, the following topics are of special interest
(however, this list is not exhaustive).

Covered TOPICS include (but are not limited to):

– General issues in scalable computing
– Algorithms and programming models for large-scale applications,
simulations and systems
– Large-scale symbolic, numeric, data-intensive, graph-oriented,
distributed computations
– Fault-tolerant and consensus techniques for large-scale computing
– Resilient large-scale computing
– Data models for large-scale applications, simulations and systems
– Large-scale distributed databases
– Load-balancing / intelligent resource management in large-scale
applications, simulations and systems
– Performance analysis, evaluation, optimization and prediction
– Scientific workflow scheduling
– Data visualization
– On-demand computing
– Virtualization supporting computations
– Volunteer computing
– Scaling applications from small-scale to exa-scale (and back)
– Big data real-time computing / analytics
– Economic, business and ROI models for large-scale applications
– Emerging technologies for scalable computing
– Cloud / Fog / Dew computing architectures, models, algorithms and
applications
– High performance computing in Cloud / Fog / Dew
– Green computing in Cloud / Fog / Dew
– Performance, capacity management and monitoring of Cloud / Fog / Dew
configuration
– Cloud / Fog / Dew application scalability and availability
– Big Data cloud services
– Architectures for large-scale computations (GPUs, accelerators,
quantum systems, federated systems, etc.)
– Self* and autonomous computational / storage systems

PAPER SUBMISSION:

* Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF or MSWord file).
* The total length of a paper should not exceed 10 pages IEEE style
(including tables, figures and references).
* Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific
merit and relevance to the workshop.
* Preprints containing accepted papers will be published on a USB memory
stick provided to the FedCSIS participants.
* Only papers presented at the conference will be published in
Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore®
database.
* Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN
and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site.
* Conference proceedings will be indexed in BazEkon and submitted for
indexation in: Thomson Reuters – Conference Proceedings Citation Index,
SciVerse Scopus, Inspec, Index Copernicus, DBLP Computer Science
Bibliography and Google Scholar.
* Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS events.

* Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference
will be published as Special Issue(s) of: